The World Moo Duk Kwan® Presents: Founder, Hwang Kee at 1989 Dan Shim Sa.mpg

Brief Video of the Founder of Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan® presiding over the 1989 Dan Shim Sa at the Headquarters in Springfield, NJ.

[@WEIRDNEWSNETWORK]

Great historic video. Thanks for sharing it. What a class act the Supreme Grandmaster was. He has given the martial arts world so much more than they will ever know.

[@charlessansom4849]

The master with the beard was, I’m pretty sure, Russ Hanke.

[@Spfinator]

I believe you are correct.

[@deliaketrow5736]

Now. Grand. Mastr. Ci. Kim. Is. Still. Blising. All. Off. Becos. I Is. A. Tro. Master. And. I. Will. Naver. Sa ooo IV v

[@robertdennis550]

Oh it absolutely was Russ Hanke. I had to go to his school to retest for a mistake I made during my O-Dan test in 94.

[@vinniehoward5119]

This is when I tested for Cho Dan

[@dougguard1]

I like the American way. Our teachers become masters and Americanized verious martial arts. Korean masters were held in suspicion by the South Korean government because they were embedded with a cult of personality too much like the north. Tang Soo Do was ultimately not allowed on Osan Airforce Base for a period of time.

[@ridgerover8347]

My instructor was present as an instructor/judge at Osan Air Force Base when Norris tested for his black belt in 1965. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmK8ZYGBl8Sdl7s

[@nickpatterson3546]

hey, do you know who the other masters were following in line? was the third in line (after KJN) Larry Seiberlich?

[@kevingundelach8753]

Does anyone know if Byong Young Yu trained under the founder of Tang So Do. I read an interview in one of the martial art magazines back in the 70s and he said he originally trained in Tang Soo Do in Korea and he had the same Laurel Leaf patch on the front of his uniform but his schools said he taught Taekwondo. I noticed his forms were not like the other taekwondo schools in the area and they resembled the tangsoodo forms that were being demonstrated on the East Coast.

[@toddemmett9442]

I studied under Grand Master Man Bok Song starting 1973. It was then what best I could describe as Tang soo do. Master from Korea, spoke little English, from Korean military. Master Hwang on all my Certificates but things changed im remembering late 70s? When we started talking Tae Kwon Do. I felt it was political, financially more viable? I still look at my and others training and am proud of our class and feel Tae Kwon do became a type of mut in a dog show and changed not for the better. Still great but away from core. If that makes sense. I still go to other gyms and wonder if most have any credential and see style change. I preferred the original brought to US. By masters like Master song, Both Master Kim's etc . I'd love to ask Chuck Norris his thought as her was a few years before me with These same great men. And went through same changes.

[@stevebrindle1724]

Establish a name, link yourself to it, get students make money, make more money add more bullshit!

[@robertdennis550]

No that was Russ Hanke. I Believe he was still a Yuk Dan then.

[@620ronin]

Listening to GM HC Hwang with his condescending attitude toward the candidate regarding a mistake that was made at about the 8 minute mark is a reminder of why many of us departed the organization .

[@robertdennis550]

Hwang was a stickler for discipline and technique. I had to retest part of my O Dan 6 months after my Shim Sa for not using enough huri (waist) in my techniques. My own instructor C.I. Kim was just as tough. He taught his Dad's with the same intensity as the Koreans were taught in Korea, but it showed in our technique and fighting.

[@charlessansom4849]

I remember Master Art Pryor was testing my instructor at the time for her 3rd Dan, I believe. It was in her school in Titusville, Florida, and she had Christmas lights in the front windows of the studio. During part of the interview he pretty much told her she needed to take those lights down because it might offend someone that she was celebrating Christmas. I wondered, what in the hell does that have to do with Tang Soo Do? I remember being so irritated by that. I’ve met some really decent masters, and I have met a couple of asses too, I think just because they were in positions of authority and could be asses. I don’t think he’s around anymore.

[@robertdennis550]

@@charlessansom4849 I remember Arthur, we tested for our Sa Dan together. He was a bit arrogant. Most Ko Dan Ja were cool but there are quite a few who think they are all that. It's a shame because we were taught to be servants for the members, not to act like overlords.

[@charlessansom4849]

@@robertdennis550 I met way more decent, humble masters than of the other kind. I think that some people who aren’t anything else in their lives, when they get to be someone that others look up to, or in some position of authority, it goes to their head. Fortunately that seems to be the exception and not the rule. I’ve not trained actively in many years, but my granddaughter is active in Taekwondo, and I often go to the dojang to watch her train, and it sure does make me miss martial arts. Unfortunately I moved away from the town where I was training, and Texas being so large it’s hundreds of miles between So Bahk Do studios, so I don’t train anymore. I sure do miss the National competitions, the sparring, the sweat, just everything about it. I especially miss the camaraderie. Those were really good days.